DMG Early Career Award –For outstanding contributions by earlycareer scientists presented at theDMG Annual Meeting

The DMG Early Career Award is presented for outstanding contributions by early career scientists at the DMG Annual Meeting. Awards are given for the best oral presentation and the best poster presentation. Each award is endowed with €750 and is presented at the subsequent DMG Annual Meeting. The award recognizes the quality and visibility of current research in mineralogy.

The DMG Early Career Award is currently presented in place of the Paul Ramdohr Award, which has been suspended pending a historical review.

Award Recipients

Early Career Award

2025 – Angelina Abel

The DMG is delighted to present the 2025 Early Career Award for an outstanding poster and an outstanding oral presentation at the Geo4Göttingen Annual Meeting to two early-career scientists. The second award recipient is Angelina Abel from the University of Göttingen.

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Early Career Award

2025 – Vanessa Winkler

The DMG is delighted to present the 2025 Early Career Award for an outstanding poster and an outstanding oral presentation at the Geo4Göttingen Annual Meeting to two early-career scientists. One of this year’s award recipients is Vanessa Winkler from Leibniz University Hannover.

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Early Career Award

2024 – Aleksandr Rakipov

Unlocking Botswana’s mantle roots: Early Career Award winner Aleksandr Rakipov advances mantle geochemistry.

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Early Career Award

2024 Max Hellers

Unlocking magmatic evolution through precise olivine analyses: Early Career Award winner Max Hellers decodes the history of the Delitzsch carbonatite complex.

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Early Career Award

2023 – Rebecca Volkmann

From crystal structure to sustainable agriculture: Ramdohr Award winner Rebecca Volkmann investigates struvite transformation for resource-efficient fertilizer storage.

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Early Career Award

2022 – Eric Alexander Runge

From synthetic biominerals to reconstructing early life: Ramdohr Award winner Eric Alexander Runge investigates the formation and preservation of biosignatures in hydrothermal sulfide systems.

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Early Career Award

2022 – Marie C. Gentzmann

From bauxite residue to valuable resource: Ramdohr Award winner Marie C. Gentzmann investigates the mineralogical pathways of scandium during ore processing.

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Early Career Award

2021 – Johannes Pohlner

From Fe isotope fractionation in eclogites to deciphering oxidation states: Ramdohr Award winner Johannes Pohlner sheds light on high-pressure metamorphic processes in the Münchberg Massif.

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Early Career Award

2021 – Dominik Mock

From magmatic sill intrusions in the Oman Ophiolite to understanding the lower oceanic crust: Ramdohr Award winner Dominik Mock sheds light on deep crustal differentiation processes.

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Early Career Award

2018 – Anja Allabar

Unraveling decompression-induced phase separation in magmas: Paul Ramdohr Award presented to Anja Allabar for her outstanding presentation on vesicle nucleation and spinodal decomposition in Vesuvius melts.

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Early Career Award

2017 – Jessica Starke

Andean denudation rates and cosmogenic isotopes: Paul Ramdohr Award for Jessica Starke for investigating latitudinal variations along the Western Andean Margin.

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Early Career Award

2016 – Martin Kutzschbach

Boron isotope fractionation in olenitic tourmalines: Paul Ramdohr Award presented to Martin Kutzschbach for his outstanding presentation on the structural influence of tetrahedral boron in fluid systems.

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Early Career Award

2015 – Aurelia Zirner

Magmatic fluid precipitates in Cyprus: Paul Ramdohr Award presented to Aurelia Zirner for her outstanding poster on the origin of anorthositic dykes.

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Early Career Award

2014 – Eleanor Berryman

Crystal chemical controls on dravitic tourmalines: Paul Ramdohr Award presented to Dr. Eleanor Berryman for her research on P-T-X influences on alkali incorporation.

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Early Career Award

2013 – Jonas Pape

Zr-in-rutile thermometry under UHT metamorphic conditions: Paul Ramdohr Award presented to Jonas Pape for reconstructing extreme thermal histories in Ivrea Zone paragneisses.

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Early Career Award

2012 – Shreya Karmakar

Archean UHT metamorphism in the East Sahara Ghost Craton: Paul Ramdohr Award presented to Shreya Karmakar for microanalytical reconstruction of complex P-T-t paths in metapelites.

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Early Career Award

2011 – Dennis Harries

Crystallographic controls on pyrrhotite dissolution: Paul Ramdohr Award presented to Dr. Dennis Harries for his FIB-TEM and 3D topometric study of oxidative weathering.

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Early Career Award

2009 – Bastian Joachim

Diffusion-controlled kinetics in metamorphic reaction rims: Paul Ramdohr Award presented to Bastian Joachim for experimental constraints on åkermanite growth in the CaO–MgO–SiO2 system.

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Early Career Award

2008 – Toni Schulz

Tungsten isotope constraints on primitive achondrite differentiation: Paul Ramdohr Award presented to Dr. Toni Schulz for demonstrating rapid early accretion of planetesimals.

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Early Career Award

2007 – Katja Schmidt

Supercritical fluids at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge: DMG Early Career Award for Katja Schmidt for sampling submarine vapor phases.

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Early Career Award

2006 – Juliane Groß

Eclogite–marble contact zone at Stümpelfelsen: Paul Ramdohr Award for Katrin Stübner for petrological studies.

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Early Career Award

2005 – Andreas Mutter

Bond-valence deficiency and crystal morphology: Paul Ramdohr Award presented to Christian Trischler for a novel approach to describing morphological changes.

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Early Career Award

2004 – Horst Marschall

The Paul Ramdohr Award presented to Bastian Joachim for modeling fluid release processes in high-pressure rocks.

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Early Career Award

2003 – Andreas Pack

Stable oxygen isotope geochemistry and meteoritic applications: Paul Ramdohr Award presented to Andreas Pack for innovative isotopic approaches.

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Early Career Award

2003 – Cornelia Bockrath

Sulfide melts and platinum-group element fractionation: Paul Ramdohr Award presented to Cornelia Bockrath for insights into PGE behavior and monosulfide stability.

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Apply for the Early Career Award

Young DMG members can apply for the DMG Early Career Award with their contribution to the Annual Meeting. Applications must be submitted to the DMG President by the respective abstract deadline. The Award Committee selects the recipients for the best oral and poster presentations.

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